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Infrastructure SINET 100G Global Ring and Data Exploitation Infrastructure SINET 100G Global Ring and Data Exploitation Sep. 18, 2019 Tomohiro Kudoh Professor, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo Cross Appointment Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII) Data Exploitation Platform Two topics 1 • Overview of SINET • 100Gbps domestic mesh and international ring • Data Exploitation Platform • PoC environment for everyone/everyday data exploitation applications, leveraged by SINET Data Exploitation Platform SINET (Science Information Network ) 2 • Japanese academic backbone network • Operated by NII (National Institute of Informatics) • Connects more than 800 universities and research institutions. • Connects many research facilities: seismology, space science, high-energy physics, nuclear fusion, computing science, and so on. • Being used by over 2 million users • Supports international research collaboration through international lines. • More than 100Gbps connection to every prefecture in Japan • 100Gbps international ring • Started mobile connection service Data Exploitation Platform Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII History of SINET 1987 Packet exchange network as predecessor of SINET 1992 SINET as Internet backbone (29 sites, 6-50Mbps) 2002 Super-SINET for leading-edge science (14 sites, up to 10Gbps) in parallel to SINET 2007 SINET3 (34 prefectures, 1Gbps to 40Gbps) as integrated backbone with new services 2011 SINET4 (47 prefectures, 2.4Gbps to 40Gbps) with highly-available nodes and lines 2016 SINET5 (47 prefectures, 100Gbps or more) with 100Gbps International lines and mobile capability • Expansion of coverage area • 100Gbps line for every prefecture • Placement of SINET nodes at DCs • 100Gbps international lines • Line speed of 2.4Gbps to 40Gbps • Mobile capability Europe : Newly covered prefecture USA and Europe USA Asia Singapore © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 3 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII SINET5 SINET5, which covers all the prefectures with 100-Gbps lines, started its operation in April 2016. The international lines were upgraded to 100Gbps in early 2019. It is used by 917 universities and research institutions, and by more than 3 million users. Inter-Univ. National Municipal Private Junior Colleges of Labs and Research Universities Universities Universities Colleges Technology Others Total Institutes Number of 86 83 399 79 56 16 198 917 Sapporo Organizations (100%) (90%) (66%) (25%) (98%) (100%) (As of August 2019) * : SINET node Amsterdam Lab. C : Domestic line (100Gbps or more) Univ. B : International line (100Gbps) Lab. D : Access line of user organization Univ. A Fukuoka * Osaka New York Tokyo Los Angeles Singapore © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 4 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Topology Change of International Lines SINET had two direct 10-Gbps lines to London for low latency and high-performance in 2016. SINET also had a 100-Gbps line to Los Angeles in 2016. SINET4 SINET5 (2016 ~) : SINET 100-Gbps line : SINET 10-Gbps line © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 5 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII International Lines of SINET5 Japan-Europe line, Japan-New York line (via Los Angeles), and Japan-Singapore line were upgraded to 100 Gbps in February or March 2019. NII is seeking resilient circuit architecture in collaboration with other NRENs. SURFnet NORDUnet CANARIE Amsterdam In February 2019 CalREN ESnet GÉANT Pacific Internet2 MAN Wave LAN Los Angeles New York Asi@Connect Tokyo Singapore RedCLARA AARNet REUNA : SINET 100-Gbps line : Other 100-Gbps line Until March 2022 © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 6 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII International Lines (North Pole View) 100Gbps ring connection around the globe is expected to supercharge EU-Japanese science collaborations. https://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/Pages/100Gbps-ring-connection-around-the-globe-supercharges.aspx SURFnet SURFnet MAN New York MAN New York London LAN Amsterdam LAN CANARIE CANARIE GÉANT NORDUnet GÉANT NORDUnet ESnet ESnet Pacific CalREN Pacific CalREN Internet2 Wave Internet2 Wave Los Angeles Los Angeles Asi@Connect Asi@Connect Tokyo Tokyo Singapore : 100-Gbps line Singapore : New 100-Gbps line : 10-Gbps line : Replaced 100-Gbps line AARnet AARnet Until February 2019 From March 2019 © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 7 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Mutual Backup with other NRENs Advanced North Atlantic Collaboration (June 2019) SURFnet New York MAN : SINET 100-Gbps line Amsterdam LAN : Other 100-Gbps line CANARIE GÉANT NORDUnet ESnet Pacific CalREN Internet2 Wave Los Angeles Asia Pacific Ring Collaboration （December 2017） Asia-pacific Europe Ring Collaboration (July 2019） Asi@Connect Tokyo Singapore AARnet © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 8 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Large-Volume Data Transfer Examples Belle II (Several 10Gbps) HPC Data Backup (over 90Gbps) Tsukuba - LA Kobe - Kashiwa USA Tsukuba Kobe Kashiwa 8K Video Transmission (25Gbps~50Gbps) 231Gbps-Speed File Transfer In November 2017 NII Server Okinawa - Tokyo Sapporo Snow Festival Blue Ocean NII Server Osaka Tokyo Okinawa © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 9 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII 321Gbps Data Transfer Experiment at TNC19 • Experiment using special protocol (MMCFTP) at TNC19@Estonia in June 2019. • Attained 321Gbps data transfer rate between Japan and Estonia over the following four 100-Gbps lines. • Tokyo – Amsterdam – Estonia • Tokyo – Seattle – Chicago – Montreal – Amsterdam – Estonia • Tokyo – Los Angels – New York – Amsterdam – Estonia • Tokyo – Singapore – London – Estonia © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 10 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Growing VPN Services Secure and high-performance VPN services have been growing, and the number of VPNs exceeds 2,700. Collaborative Research Environment Use of Cloud Computing Large Experimental Cloud Data Centers Facilities Direct Connect Research Data L2VPN L2VPN Univ. E L2VPN/L3VPN Univ. A Lab. B Univ. Lab. Lab. D Univ. C Multiple Campus Bandwidth Guarantee e.g. International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 : Logical Router (L2VPN) : Logical Router (Internet) L2VPN with 2Gbps Tokyo Tsukuba Internet Virtual Campus LAN/ VPLS Communication quality was very Students important ! Campus 1 Campus 2 Campus 3 Server (AWS) Olympiad Site © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 11 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Usage Examples (1) 1) High-Energy Physics 2) High-Performance Computing 3) Nuclear Fusion Science 4) Seismology © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 12 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Usage Examples (2) 5) Astronomy 6) Geodesy 7) ALMA Telescope 8) Space Observation Asteroid Explorer © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 13 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Usage Examples in Medical Field 9) Medical Image Data Analysis 10) Remote Diagnosis by 8K Video Kyoto University The University of Collecting image Hospital Tokyo Hospital data by L2VPN and analyzing 8K Monitor 8K them by AI 8K monitor Camera Encoder L2VPN Decoder Microscope Microscope operation & Pathologist Specimens camera focus 11) Remote Medical Education 12) Medical Information Backup 46 national univs’ hospitals L2VPN © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 14 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII 400Gbps Optical Link Deployment • Traffic amount between Tokyo and Osaka has been increasing due to encouraged traffic by upgraded internarial lines as well as ever-increasing traffic from existing applications. • We plan to introduce a new 400Gbps optical link between Tokyo and Osaka. Being Operational in December 2019 400Gbps Optical Link * between Tokyo and Osaka Europe : SINET Node : 400Gbps : 100Gbps (Domestic) : 100Gbps (International) * United States Asia © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 15 SINET “density” Edited based on a slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Japan and California in the same scale Corning Colusa Sacramento Emeryville San Francisco Merced Palo Alto Sunnyvale Fresno Soledad Bakersfield San Luis Obispo Riverside Los Angeles Palm Desert Tustin San Diego El Centro Yuma Tijuana ： nodes ： 100 Gbps connections Source: https://cenic.org/network/network-overview Data Exploitation Platform 16 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Mobile Platform in SINET5 NII started to introduce mobile capability into SINET in order to support IoT research and mobile-oriented applications toward 5G era in December 2018. Mobile virtual network created for SINET over commercial mobile network is directly combined with SINET VPN plane through gateways for secure communication. Cloud Cooperative Vendors University Compute Compute Compute Various analysis platforms are flexibly available. Storage Storage Storage Data Data Data Data Data Data L2VPN VPN L2VPN Gateway Mobile Network Mobile communication (Softbank, KDDI, DoCoMo) Fixed promotes expansion of research activities. Mobile Virtual Network Local Community Wide Area Restricted Area University Enterprise Local public entity Nature Protection Shore Mobile Area © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 17 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Directly-Connected Cloud Services 31 cloud datacenters (26 service providers) are directly-connected to SINET in order to provide high-performance and secure cloud services for more than 190 universities. Cloud Datacenters Direct Connection Selectable Universities © 2019 National Institute of Informatics 18 Slide provided by S. Urushidani @ NII Schedule for SINET6 NII plans
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